Cymro

OK, around the summer of last year, my CDRW drive started to fuck up, it wouldn't read CD's and was writing a lot of dud CDs. The problems got worse and worse until eventually it was unsusable,and wouldn't even open without me pushing a paperclip into the manual eject thingy, so I disabled it. Earlier on, I decided to try it again, so I opened it with a paperclip, put a CD in and re-enabled the device. Now it opens and closes the way it's supposed to, and reads and writes discs perfectly. How weird is that?

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Deslok

I once knew a hippie who believed that machines have souls and consciousness. Maybe the CD/RW was mad at you!

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Cymro

Well...I did buy a DVD ROM drive last year, maybe he was jealous about not getting enough attention.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Maybe it just wanted a rest

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk